FibsonGender
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Posting photos of mine just to be fair. I'd really like to see others and learn whatever the community here has to offer. Here's the story on this particular guitar..
I grew up in the SF Bay Area and starting at the age of 11, started accompanying my father to his guitar lessons early Saturday mornings in Santa Cruz. This was about an hour drive for us one way and was great bonding time for my father and I. The teacher was a gent I'll call Steve. Steve was a master bluegrass flat picker and all around solid guitarist. We'd often attend private concerts in his living room with virtuosos of different modalities of the art. It was a pretty neat experience as a kid.
So Steve worked to some extent, the scope of which I am not entirely sure, for Santa Cruz guitar company. Save that for later..
My father purchased a 97 Bourgeois JOM-V new from a local shop in the Bay Area. After bringing it to a lesson one weekend shortly after he had acquired it, Steve convinced my father that he should have Richard Hoover at SC guitars set it up for medium strings and he was adamant that it be done.
My father got the guitar back about a month later with a setup and new medium strings but he knew something was off. Why did it take a month to file the nut and adjust the truss rod? We always believed that Hoover was measuring the Bourgeois trying to figure out what the hell Dana did. It is an absolute cannon now and was back then. Watching this guy put his pre-war Martin Dreadnaught down to ask for this measly OM was a humbling experience. From that moment on I knew that this was a special guitar. It is a tragedy as well as an honor that it is now mine to share with you all.
Please share your knowledge or experience with these things if you got's it!
Cheers
Not sure if SC had a JOM model available now that competes with this, but they didn't in 97.
Edit: I totally forgot to mention;
This is a JOM-V with an Adirondack soundboard and Indian rosewood back and sides. Mahogany neck, Ebony FB..
I grew up in the SF Bay Area and starting at the age of 11, started accompanying my father to his guitar lessons early Saturday mornings in Santa Cruz. This was about an hour drive for us one way and was great bonding time for my father and I. The teacher was a gent I'll call Steve. Steve was a master bluegrass flat picker and all around solid guitarist. We'd often attend private concerts in his living room with virtuosos of different modalities of the art. It was a pretty neat experience as a kid.
So Steve worked to some extent, the scope of which I am not entirely sure, for Santa Cruz guitar company. Save that for later..
My father purchased a 97 Bourgeois JOM-V new from a local shop in the Bay Area. After bringing it to a lesson one weekend shortly after he had acquired it, Steve convinced my father that he should have Richard Hoover at SC guitars set it up for medium strings and he was adamant that it be done.
My father got the guitar back about a month later with a setup and new medium strings but he knew something was off. Why did it take a month to file the nut and adjust the truss rod? We always believed that Hoover was measuring the Bourgeois trying to figure out what the hell Dana did. It is an absolute cannon now and was back then. Watching this guy put his pre-war Martin Dreadnaught down to ask for this measly OM was a humbling experience. From that moment on I knew that this was a special guitar. It is a tragedy as well as an honor that it is now mine to share with you all.
Please share your knowledge or experience with these things if you got's it!
Cheers
Not sure if SC had a JOM model available now that competes with this, but they didn't in 97.
Edit: I totally forgot to mention;
This is a JOM-V with an Adirondack soundboard and Indian rosewood back and sides. Mahogany neck, Ebony FB..
